English Lessons
“He was your stereotypical sleazy car salesman.”
You bought a used car recently. The salesman who sold you the car had a strange personality, so you're telling a friend the story of buying the car. You say:
“How can you be so naive?”
You're discussing politics on an Internet message board. You think that the government is controlled by large corporations. One of the other members writes that the way to improve the country is to vote in elections. You don't think this will work...
“There’s a twenty dollar minimum.”
You’re a bartender. A customer tries to pay with a credit card. Your bar gets busy, so you don’t allow customers to use a credit card for just one drink. You say:
“My phone bill was even higher than usual this month.”
You're talking to your friend about how much you use text messaging on your phone. Your phone bill is always high, but your last bill was higher than normal. You tell your friend this about your bill.
“It's under "2012".”
You're training a new employee at work. You're explaining where a file is located on the computer.
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